Carving

I started carving my giant linoleum block last week but had to stop for a little while because I got an invisible deep blister/bruise on my finger.  It's mostly healed and now I have some gauze to wrap around my carving knife to help with the blistering.

I've drawn most of the parts of the print onto transfer paper and will transfer each piece at a time.  

He's swimming underwater.

I've wanted to do a large linoleum block print ever since I saw the John Buck exhibit at the Crocker last year.  Did you see it?  He does sculpture and wood cuts and some of them are huge!  So impressive.

The Singer Tract

Botanica

The Luminary

Cover that up.

What about this dress?  Va-va-voom! The material might be a little chintzy but I like the idea of it.  The first photo is the fancypants version and the 2nd is the cheapskate version.  I'm drawn to the expensive one since the model's chest is sort of (read: exactly like) mine whereas the cheapie one is definitely nothing like it.

Fancy

Boobs version

On the completely opposite fashion spectrum here is a funny video for Pringle of London by David Shrigley in case you didn't see it on my fb yesterday.  It's a couple of years old but so good.  I have a couple of his albums and they are funny and creepy.  

If I was a millionaire I would wear this sweater from their 2012 collection on rainy days like today.

WELL GEEZ.  I just looked up one of the Shrigley albums I have and it's going for a pretty penny on amazon.  

Boom!

Look how big this linoleum block is!  Another Valentine surprise from V.  This is going to be my largest linoleum block yet.  Maybe I'll sell some prints on etsy when I'm finished and become a millionaire.

It's supposed to get stormy today.  Jag is enjoying as much sun as he can before his tiny little square disappears.